Microsoft delays final Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update to 2025

Microsoft has pushed the final Cumulative Update for Exchange Server 2019 into 2025. It's good news for Exchange Server administrators hoping for a quiet festive season after the problematic November 2024 Security Update (SU) that broke transport rules and disrupted the flow of email for some users. In 2022, Microsoft …

[Kevin Johnston]

Odd name

I presume removing the year from the version is to make it less obvious how many major changes come through the pipeline. I presume there is an official meaning for SE but at first glance I thought of it as 'Something Else' which then led me to the SEP field idea from HHGTTG

[katrinab]

Re: Odd name

SE = Subscription Edition

[Steve Davies 3]

Re: Odd name

SE == Sucks Everytime

[Mentat74]

Re: Odd name

SE = Shiatty Edition...

[cookieMonster]

Re: Odd name

SE = Same Excrement

[Anonymous Coward]

"However, it said that since "our release dates are driven by quality,""

Yes, of course they are! When those of us working in IT think of Microsoft patches and updates, 'quality' is obviously the first word which springs to mind...

FFS!

[MatthewSt]

We never said it was _good_ quality

[ecofeco]

Right? Bollocks is a quality. And one that M$ excels at.

[CorwinX]

Really?

"customers ... tell us that December is not a good time to release a CU"

Wonder how many consult-o-droids they had to pay to come up with that earth-shattering novel revelation.

[CorwinX]

Back in the mists of time...

... when I worked for a major bank, the system-change moratorium started a week before the 25th.

Unless it's literally on fire - don't bloody touch it.¡